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| instantly stiffened while my mind instantly wandered. A family function?being around his horrible family

members?

“You'd really liketo attend?” | asked, feeling perplexed and awed and flattered at the stime.

Marco nodded almost immediately. “Of course | want you to attend. | wanna introduce you to everyone as my

girlfriend as fast as possible,” he explained and | felt a shy girl tug at the sides of my lips while my stomach

fluttered.

“The earlier | do that, the faster people will forget you once dated Zane.” He added and | nodded tensely this

time, my heart stuttering in my chest at the mention of Zane again.

“Uh...“I cleared my throat and licked my lips before continuing. “Would Zane be attending as well?”

The reason | asked that question was to confirm. If Zane was gonna be in attendance, | wasn’t gonna attend,

cause | was determined to not cross parts with Zane at all. At least before we start to cross paths, all that

happened back at the island needed to be like a thing that happened ages ago, and not just days ago.

Marco frowned as he stared down at me, his lips going into a thin line as his brows furrowed. “Why are you

asking? Please tellyou're already fully over my brother and aren't asking because you're hoping he’d be

there?” He demanded and | stiffened before quickly shaking my head.

“What?! I'm definitely fully over him. | asked cause | hoped he wouldn't be in attendance cause | won't wanna

run into him.” | muttered and that seemed to calm Marco down cause he slowly relaxed before he laughed a

little.

“Oh, okay. | understand you then, and that’s good.” After that, he went silent a little before continuing.

“And to answer your question, | don’t think Zane is gonna attend. My brother never attends anything like this

even if he gets invited. He kind of hates all of us and we hate him in return, so you have no reason to worry

when it comes to Zane attending cause he definitely won't.”

A relieved sigh left my lungs as | nodded, my heartbeat slowly settling down.

“Alright. That's good, that’s good,” | mumbled.

That's very good.

The next evening, | reluctantly dressed in one of the dresses Zane got for me. | didn’t have anything else that

was good enough for tonight. Marco’s family were very condescending, and dressing in a cheap dress wasn’t

gonna help them seein a good light at all, and it was unfortunate that my most costly dresses are the ones

Zane got me.

The dress was quite short but elegant at the stime. It revealed all my back, and the front revealed a good

size of my cleavage. | knew | looked good and I twirled around before the mirror while loving how the sheer black

dress hugged my hips and waist. | liked myself in this outfit and it boosted my confidence so much. dence so

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After doing my hair up and putting my makeup on, Marco was finally here to pickup. I quickly slipped on a

pair of shoes which Zane got foras well, and | sighed whine feeling a bit embarrassed that all what | was

presently decked in were things gotten by him... but at least he wouldn't be in attendance so no one would be

aware of that, which means it was fine at the end of the day.

When | went to let Marco in, right after the door closed, he pulledinto a kiss which was too wet, but | forced

that thought to the back of my mind and moved my lips against it till | felt slight tingles from it. After the kiss

broke, Marco lookedover and clicked his tongue in disapproval.

“This dress... isn’t it a little too revealing? This isn’t like you at all, Addi.”

| felt a frown slowly settle on my face as | peered down at the dress. “What's wrong with the dress?”

The dress was perfectly fine with me. Although | hated revealing skin in the past, I've grown comfortable in my

skin in the past few week, so this was perfectly fine to me.

“It’s too unlike you. The you | knew from the past hated to reveal your skin... and | liked that. It felt like | was the

only one you'd get to see most of your skin. But now you're wearing these kinds of clothes and | just don’t like

ie.”

I swallowed emptily, glancing down at my dress again while feeling extremely conflicted and unsure of what to

say or do next. | want to please Marco as usual, and even though | really liked this dress, | didn’t want him to

constantly be unhappy whenever he looked attonight.

l

guess I'll go change.” | mumbled and he grinned in approval.

“Please.”

As | went back into the bedroom, while searching for an outfit that revealed barely any skin, I felt my skin grow

tight and uncomfortable.

Marco sounded like the picture ofwhich he still had in his mind was offive years ago. Would he ever

accept the fact that I've changed?

Thankfully, | managed to find a black bodycon dress. It revealed zero skin and wasn’t that flattering but it would

have to do.

When | returned back to the sitting room, Marco was standing in the middle of the space, his eyes darting

around,

“Why didn’t you sit down while waiting for me?” | asked and he scoffed while laughing a little.

“Your house is too... ugly. No offense, of course, but it's just too shabby and poor looking. I couldn't possibly sit in

those worn looking couches.”

My mouth fell open in shock. “What?”

He walked over toand cupped my face. “I don’t mean any harm, okay? It’s just not my style. Now that we're

dating, | won't be able to sleepover here because of this... except | get to renovate this place first.

| shook his hands off as | scowled at him. “No, thanks. Not after insulting my home.” | muttered while feeling

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